The global population divides into two sides: those who believe in something and those who do not. Paradoxically non-believers ponder religious questions just as much as devout believers. Irreligious thinking systems reject the belief in anything supernatural. Interpretations vary from casual to philosophical. People following irreligions focus their inquiry on the absence of religious sacredness. They do so with the same sincerity, energy, and conviction as the believers on the spiritual side. Educational and intelligence on both sides are likely to be identical. Religious and irreligious views are mutually exclusive and essentially unreconcilable. Irreconcilability always carries the potential of conflict. Those searching for a united, all-inclusive Ground may not find it here.
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Agnostic atheism is like sitting on the fence. Agnostic atheism includes both atheism and agnosticism. Followers are atheistic because they reject the existence of any divine being. At the same time, they are agnostic because they claim that the presence of a deity can not be established in knowledge nor fact. In this way, they neither believe nor disbelieve in god(s) or religious doctrine.
Apatheists are people who prefer an attitude of apathy towards questions of the existence or non-existence of divine beings. They are not interested in religious views, claims or belief systems. They don’t reject or accept, they just don’t want to know as they feel any discussion of these topics is pointless and irrelevant. The philosopher Denis Diderot (1713-1784) wrote: “It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.”
Secularists believe that everybody has the right to follow or not follow a religion or not. However, religion and state must be neutral in questions of faith. There is an unbridgeable wall between state and religion. The principles of secularism are derived from the material world and reject all metaphysical and supernatural aspects of traditional beliefs.